Botticelli's Venus Ornament

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is home to three of Sandro Botticelli's finest works: The Tragedy of Lucretia, The Nativity, and Virgin and Child with an Angel. 

This ornament features the figure of the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth when she had emerged from the sea fully grown. She is instantly recognizable from Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, currently on display in the Uffizi Gallery in Italy.

Ornaments of other subjects, artists, authors, and notable figures inspired by Isabella and the Museum also available!